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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.

James Baldwin

Artists are here to disturb the peace.
JAMES BALDWIN

Art Artist Disturb One Liner Peace
Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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Afford Confusion Luxury Possible Young Youth
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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Freedom Independence Liberty Patriotism People
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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DAngry Deep Healing Lose Man Society
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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Deal Fear Hate Imagination Pain People Reason
Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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Afford Grief Guilt Hurt Luxury One Liner
There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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Pain People Suffering
The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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According Change People Person Reality World
Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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Colour Human Naked Sex
When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
JAMES BALDWIN

Curosity Passion Peace Try Writing
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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Alive Connect People Teaching
The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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Situation Threat Victim Women
Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Country Humour Love One Liner
The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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Beginning Consicious Education Paradox Society
There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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Arrive People Perpetual World
I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Believe Inspirational Judgement One Liner Success

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